Finally, pulse price is a poll issue in Bihar
After reservation, Dadri lynching and cow-slaughter, the rising pulse prices have now become a poll issue in Bihar, as leaders tried to pin the blame on their rivals. Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said the Nitish Kumar government did not utilise the special Central fund for price stabilisation. “The Central government wrote to several State governments, including Bihar, to take advantage of the Price Stabilising Fund. Earlier, grand alliance leaders Lalu Prasad and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had raised the issue at their poll meetings and blamed the Central government. Mr. Kumar borrowed a statement Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made, to take a jibe at him for the spiralling prices of pulses: “ Na khaunga, na khane dunga.
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